THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 5, 1940
"Gringoire"
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Paris "I'm sorry you haven't slept well, but at least you weren't disturb- ed by guns." "No, but I can't stand the tick of that beastly clock."
Princess Paul
Princess Paul of Jugoslavia, who has been staying at a West End hotel, left London for an unknown destination.
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India Office
Attempt
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A caretaker on duty at the India Office discovered that an attempt had been made to enter the building through a window in King Charles- street.
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Did Not Answer
Sentry
Tarry Giles, 33, a furniture worker, of High Wycombe, is in hospital after being shot by a sentry at a guarded point in the district. Giles, who fail ed to answer a challenge while out for a country walk, is recovering from leg wounds.
Blamed The
Goldfish
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DEAN ATTACKS PACIFISTS
IN CATHEDRAL
PREBENDARY R. HANSON, Dean of King's College, London, told pacifist students at a founders' day service at Bristol Cathedral that they had become victims of a very subtle and poisonous propaganda.
He told them that to-day in Europe men were lying wounded, helpless, perhaps dead, by the wayside, and the great majority of the youth of this country, including many at Bristol University and King's College, had either gone or were ready to go to their help.
A minority had got their minds the balloon barrage, as one of his two muddled in all kinds of ways, and personal assistants. The professor, an placed a sentimental interpretation on Oxford don, has been performing ex- the injunction that one should love perimental work in an Admiralty lab- one's neighbour as oneself.
oratory during the war. As an ex- perimental pilot in the last war he proved by his own flights the value of the spiral dive in saving the lives of airmen.
THE OBVIOUS WAY
"Is not love giving the obvious help in the obvious way where it is ob- viously needed?" he asked.
Prebendary Hanson said he was not going to argue with those who said Alien Woman And
that wars never settled anything. It was obvious that this war was going Soldier
to settle their lives and his own for the rest of their days.
He said that many of them took certain truths from their contexts and built on them great inverted pyramids of doctrine.
"The plain truth is that the Christian doctrine was preached in the midst of a militarist society.
"If it had been primarily a passive Gospel, that would inevitably have appeared somewhere in the records; and it is not there."
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Visor For Troops
Augusta Korenjak, 30, an Austrian domestic servant employed at Reigate, Surrey, was remanded in custody when accused at Folkestone of being in a protected area without a permit.
It was stated that Korenjak, who came to Folkestone on holiday, was seen with a soldier at a camp. She had apparently seen the soldier sey- eral times, and asked him questions. Germans Kill It was because he noticed her foreign accent that the police learned about the woman.
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Capt. Barnato's
The Admiralty, War Office and Home Office are considering a pro- posal by the Ophthalmological Society that they should adopt મૈં visor in- Suit vented by Sir Richard Cruise to pro- tect troops' eyes.
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Mrs. Kathleen Bishop,. of Oxford- gardens, Denham, Bucks, was fined 10s at Beaconsfield for showing a light during the black-out. Her explana- Prof. F. A. tion was that a goldfish, which she kept in the bath, had jumped out, and she was looking for it,
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Dog Collected £300
Tinker, a 15-year-old retriever who had collected more than £300 in a box on his back at Eastleigh and Win- chester annual carnivals in the past 13 years has died. He belonged to Mr. C. Newman, of Jewry-street, Win- chester.
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Census Taker Found
Prisoners Missing
Atlanta
An enumerator arrived at prison to collect census particulars about the prisoners. After checking the prison records he discovered that two prisoners were missing-Associat- ed Press.
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Lord Chatfield's
Son
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The Hon. Ernle D. L. Chatfield, only son of Lord Chatfield, has been given the rank of temporary hon, lieutenant in the "R.N.V.K.
On January 31 a question was ask- ed in the House of Commons about his appointment as a temporary clerk at the Admiralty without his having gone through the formality of regis- tering at a labour exchange. Mr. Churchill, then First Lord, pointed out that Mr. Chatfield had served three years in the Navy as a cadet and a midshipman before being invalided out.
Lindemann
Capt. Woolf Barnato, the racing motorist, and son of the late Mr.
Germans
A train carrying German prisoners was machine-gunned at Tournai by German 'planes. Twenty oût of 650 prisoners were killed.
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Barney Barnato, the South African Divorce
millionaire, is suing his wife, former- ly Miss Jack Claridge Quealy, of San Francisco, for divorce.
A co-respondent named Raphael is
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Luise Rainer, Viennese-born star of "The Good Earth" and "The Great Zeigfield," obtained a divorce in Holly... wood from her husband, Clifford
The Prime Minister has appointed cited. The petition appears in the de- Prof. F. A. Lindemann, whose re- fended list for hearing in the Divorce Odets, the playwright. The grounds searches led to the use by Britain of Court.
were mental cruelty.
“A pity der vind it changed, Mein Reverence.”